PHP strtotime returning wrong results

Question

strtotime(\'3rd January,2010\') returns 1230993600 in GMT+5:30.

While according to this, unix timestamp 1230993600 is 3rd January,2009. So it\'s off

Answer 1

The problem is the , in the date string. It seems to separate date from time elements in your string, as

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('3rd January, 2010'));

returns

2009-01-03 20:10:00

whereas

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('3rd January 2010'));

(, removed) returns the correct date:

2010-01-03 00:00:00